Slow Food Anglia Educational Projects
We are currently in contact with several groups involved in a variety of small educational projects in the east, the south east of England and also in London. These projects include a series of workshops and talks to inform and educate children about the wide variety of wonderful foods that are available in this part of England and the benefits of eating only food that is in season.
In this country the rise of the supermarkets has led to an acceptance that a wide variety of foods from all around the globe are available twelve months of the year and part of our project in east Anglia is to teach children more about sustainability and also the nutritional value of locally sourced food.
In the east of England we live in an incredibly fertile and productive part of the UK and we are very lucky to have many small independent food producers as members of Slow Food Anglia who will work with us on this project in 2016.
Slow Food London are also pioneers in projects which deal directly with food issues with schools throughout the capital and we will be working closely with them as well as other Slow Food groups in England.
On some of our planned courses there will be a chance to go into the countryside and be guided by a professional forager to learn about wild foods and how to distinguish them and cook them.
The forager who is based in the east of England will teach groups of children about foraging for wild foods in our region and will also hold cookery demonstrations and classes with small groups in various locations in Norfolk and Essex.
We will also have special courses where groups of children can visit the East Anglian coast and spend time with people involved with local fishing communities we are working with and they can learn about many of the types of fishing activity that takes place along our long and diverse coastline, including close to shore dredging for oysters in Essex and fishing for crab in Norfolk.
We also hope to involve groups of children in the three large food festivals we are organising in 2016, one in Norwich in April, one in Colchester in September and one in London next November, where much of the focus of these events will be on sustainability in the local food chain.
There will also be many other smaller food events throughout the year in towns throughout the east of England organised by members of Slow Food groups working with us at Slow Food Anglia.
In this country the rise of the supermarkets has led to an acceptance that a wide variety of foods from all around the globe are available twelve months of the year and part of our project in east Anglia is to teach children more about sustainability and also the nutritional value of locally sourced food.
In the east of England we live in an incredibly fertile and productive part of the UK and we are very lucky to have many small independent food producers as members of Slow Food Anglia who will work with us on this project in 2016.
Slow Food London are also pioneers in projects which deal directly with food issues with schools throughout the capital and we will be working closely with them as well as other Slow Food groups in England.
On some of our planned courses there will be a chance to go into the countryside and be guided by a professional forager to learn about wild foods and how to distinguish them and cook them.
The forager who is based in the east of England will teach groups of children about foraging for wild foods in our region and will also hold cookery demonstrations and classes with small groups in various locations in Norfolk and Essex.
We will also have special courses where groups of children can visit the East Anglian coast and spend time with people involved with local fishing communities we are working with and they can learn about many of the types of fishing activity that takes place along our long and diverse coastline, including close to shore dredging for oysters in Essex and fishing for crab in Norfolk.
We also hope to involve groups of children in the three large food festivals we are organising in 2016, one in Norwich in April, one in Colchester in September and one in London next November, where much of the focus of these events will be on sustainability in the local food chain.
There will also be many other smaller food events throughout the year in towns throughout the east of England organised by members of Slow Food groups working with us at Slow Food Anglia.
In early September Slow Food Anglia was approached by the President of Slow Food Marche in eastern Italy, he wanted us to work with them on an application for funding to set up joint collaborative educational projects between our two regions.
The main focus for this cooperation would be to organise tours and visits of children between our two countries to schools where there are already schemes where they produce vegetables and fruit within the school grounds for use solely by the school kitchens. Children will learn about the different types of vegetables and fruit that can be grown in the two countries and also learn to cook local dishes specific to that region.
Slow Food Anglia already has interest from several schools in Norfolk and one in Essex and we are in touch with the Slow Food group in Italy as the application is going forward at present.
Members of Slow Food Anglia are also visiting Sicily in early November to meet with members of Slow Food Sicilia to discuss plans for several joint projects with them in 2016, many of these also involving educational visits by children from both countries to their opposite numbers in England and in Sicily.
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